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Five members of the Kansas-based church, whose nationwide picketing activities against homosexuality have earned them a “hate group” designation from southern non-profit legal authorities, demonstrated in an area flanked by Cambridge Police, who maintained a perimeter guard during the entirety of the protest...
...Burma, and so is the military regime," says Ka Hsaw Wa, co-founder of EarthRights International, an NGO that sued U.S. energy giant Unocal, which eventually provided out-of-court compensation to villagers who are believed to have toiled as slave labor for the Yadana gas pipeline from southern Burma to Thailand. "It is the local people who are suffering and dying," says Ka Hsaw...
...Furthermore, the cloture/filibuster rule is not something enshrined by centuries of observance. The rule, as practiced currently, is a quite recent invention. Prior to the late ’60s, it was primarily used by Southern senators seeking to block civil-rights legislation. Filibusters were not a factor in enacting the legislative agendas of presidents from Roosevelt through Bush Sr. The filibuster has only entered into wide usage in the last 15 years, beginning in Bill Clinton’s first term, when Republicans filibustered 32 times during the 103rd Congress. That number has grown steadily since, thanks to both...
Pope John Paul II made evangelizing the Southern Hemisphere a priority of his papacy, visiting Africa 12 times, drawing massive crowds and presumably converting some with his charismatic presence. Benedict hopes to repeat the big crowds, particularly in an open-air mass in Luanda, Angola, on Sunday, though it remains an open question whether this Pope has the same powers of persuasion as his predecessor...
When the Crimson scheduled its opening stretch of Southern games, it knew the risks of playing strong teams in midseason form. Harvard baseball (1-7) has benefited from challenging such high level competition in preparation for the Ivy season, but after a disheartening weekend—in which the Crimson dropped all four of its contests against UAB in Pensacola, Fla. and Birmingham, Ala.—the squad is looking to regroup and find its stride.“Honestly, [the weekend] was pretty disappointing,” freshman starter Brent Suter said. “We should have...